GATWICK FACTS & STATS

Overview

Gatwick is the world’s most efficient single runway airport and the UK’s second largest airport

Currently around 45 airlines operate from the airport including British Airways, easyJet, Norwegian Air, Emirates, Monarch, Thomas Cook, Thomson and Virgin.

Gatwick serves more destinations than any other UK airport (source: OAG data) and is the best connected point-to-point airport in Europe welcoming over 38 million passengers a year flying to around 200 different destinations in 90 countries.

Gatwick now serves 46 of the top 50 EU business destinations.

Gatwick has been competing vigorously since new ownership in December 2009, winning new routes to the UK’s key trading partners and providing direct connections between London and high growth economies including Indonesia, Turkey, and Russia.

Gatwick Airport is owned by a group of international investment funds, of which Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) is the largest shareholder.

Passenger numbers

Gatwick recorded its busiest ever year in 2014 with 38.1 million passengers – a 7.6% increase on 2013

Gatwick’s growth is a combination of more planes, bigger planes and fuller planes – load factors have increased to 86.1%

August 2014 saw 906 air traffic movements in one day – a world record for a single-runway airport achieved by increased operational efficiency

Long haul traffic played a key role in the growth, including the launch of ground-breaking new low-cost long-haul flights to New York and Los Angeles which helped drive a 2.8% growth in flights to North America.

Traffic to other long haul destinations in 2014 saw an increase of 12.1%. Travel to Dubai alone rose 8.3%, while Gatwick’s links to emerging markets were boosted with new routes such as Garuda Indonesia’s new services to Jakarta and new easyJet routes to Tel Aviv.

Around 1 in 5 passengers now travel through Gatwick on business and the airport now serves 46 of the 50 top business destinations in Europe.

Among the fastest growing European destinations from Gatwick in 2014 were the business centres of Copenhagen (up 23.9%) along with Paris and Brussels which were boosted by the launch of new services in 2014.

Passenger profiles

Male 50%: Female 50% - AB: 42.4%; C1: 41.2%; C2: 12%; DE: 4%

1 in 5 of Gatwick passengers are travelling on business

UK Business 11 %

Foreign Business 8 %

UK Leisure 57 %

Foreign Leisure 24 %

Facilities

Number of runways: 1

Runway length: 3,316m long by 45m wide

Number of terminals: 2 - South (opened in 1958) and North (opened in 1988)

South Terminal is 160,000m2 of which 14,768 m

2 is retail facilities

North Terminal is 98,000 m2 of which 12,530 m

2 is retail facilities

346 check-in desks along with 69 self-service kiosks.

Fast rail links to London: 28 minutes to London Bridge and 30 minutes to London Victoria

Employment and investment

Gatwick provides 21,000 on-airport jobs, of which around 2,500 are Gatwick employees

Gatwick provides a further 10,000 jobs indirectly

The operation of Gatwick contributes around £2 billion annually to the economy of London and the South East

£1.2 billion was invested at Gatwick between 2008 and 2014 with a further £1bn investment now underway